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Download full textCarnicer, Javier A. – London Review of Education, 2019
Based on a case study, this article discusses connections between educational inequality in Brazil, transnational migration and educational upward mobility. It analyses a young woman's migration from a "favela" in Brazil to Germany with a focus on the educational aspirations that motivated it, that is, as a case of "educational…
Descriptors: Migration, Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration
Direct linkSpiegler, Thomas – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
This article presents the results of a research project which examined the factors enabling educational upward mobility. The findings are based on 58 qualitative interviews with successful first-generation students who are scholarship holders from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. From an in-depth analysis of the individual resources,…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, First Generation College Students, Scholarships, Barriers
Schneider, Lynn – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2018
Despite high educational aspirations amongst asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs), scholarship on international student migration and mobility commonly lacks insight deriving from forced migration research. Drawing on qualitative research concerned with Syrian ASRs' educational aspirations and lived experiences regarding higher education access in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Academic Aspiration, Refugees, Foreign Students
Biggart, Andy; Järvinen, Tero; Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo – European Education, 2015
In this article institutional and structural factors relating to access to education are assessed. First, the macro frameworks of institutional regulation that exert influence on the educational trajectories of young Europeans are demonstrated. Based on different aspects of these frameworks and drawing from extant research, the article presents a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Practices, Classification
Roth, Tobias; Salikutluk, Zerrin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
Previous international research has shown that educational goals are fundamental for explaining differences in the educational attainment between individuals. For a better understanding of educational inequality, it is therefore crucial to know more about the mechanisms leading to different expectations. Our paper contributes to this field of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Attainment, Academic Aspiration, Foreign Countries
